Monthly Archives: March 2016

SUPPORT OUR LIONS: Bid on a Home Soil Test at Sunday’s Easton Lions Club Live Charity Auction

This horticulturist’s best advice?  Invest in a soil test before investing one cent of money or a second of your valuable time shopping for plants.

Where can you get a soil test, how do you sample and prepare your soil for testing, where do you send it, what does it cost, and what should you do with the results?  Well, this Sunday, March 13, the Easton Lions Club is holding a televised charity auction at the Oliver Ames High School cafeteria from 2-8 p.m., and Garden-911 is donating two gift certificates for home soil testing.

Below is a link to the Lions’ auction site where you can learn more.  To bid on these certificates, know that this is a live auction item so you must be present at the auction to bid:

Garden-911 Soil Test Certificates Available at the 2016 Lions Club Charity Auction

So come on down on Sunday, support the Lions and our community, and support the safe, smart stewardship of your land, starting with a soil test.  I’ll be there volunteering, so please feel free to find me and say hello.

If you don’t win the bidding, thanks for being a good sport and supporting the Lions.

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Take the Million Pollinator Garden Challenge

Here’s a challenge from the National Wildlife Federation.  If this matters to you, Garden-911 can help you get certified.

MPGC_Logo_219X219You can participate the Million Pollinator Garden Challenge by turning your yard or garden into a Certified Wildlife Habitat via National Wildlife Federation’s Garden for Wildlife program.  It’s as simple as providing food, water, cover and places to raise young for pollinators like bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. Then visit our website to certify your yard.

When you certify, you’ll get a personalized certificate, a special garden flag designating your yard as a Certified Wildlife Habitat, a one-year membership to National Wildlife Federation, six digital issues of National Wildlife magazine, a subscription to the monthly Garden for Wildlife e-newsletter, and a discount on wildlife gardening products from National Wildlife Catalog.

Most importantly, you’ll also start attracting beautiful pollinators and get the satisfaction of knowing that you’re making a difference. Each Certified Wildlife Habitat counts towards the ultimate goal of creating one million pollinator-friendly gardens by the end of 2016.

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